Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1887-02-12
NEBRASKA.

tramps.
The residences Of Fremont are being prop.
Aida will be incorporated as o city IN the
spring.
Odell, Strange county, is erecting 3 81, ooC
school house.
erly numbered.
The fine stock breeders will hold . cenven
tion at Seward.
Indianola claims a population Of 5000
and has no saloons.
Ora nd Island puts her improvements for
last year at 5000, 900.
Benkelman reports the discovery Of a tween.
t~y-seven inch vein OF coal.
A man in Waverly offers a ton Of coal to
the first couple that marries.
A new lodge of the Knights Of Pythlas has
been organized at Ainsworth.
The State Agricultural socl ,ty has a surplu:
OF nearly 1900 In the treasury.
Smutty corn stalks have killed a number Of
%cattlein Beaver Valley, Boone county.
A young wildcat, weighing eighteen
pounds, was killed at Ord last week.
The Office OF SUI erintendent OF the poor
has been abolished in Dodge county.
Broken Bow offers 100 acres Of land near
that place for the state normal school.
Nebraska City is now confident that a bridge
will be built over the Missouri 1t that point.
Ainsworth is q booming young city, and as
a trading point has no equal in the Elkhorr
valley.
The locomotives passing through Weeping
Water carried away 900 tons OF coal during
December.
Shickley is making preparations for build
ing a new seven room, two story school
house.
A mail service has been established on the
Northwestern railroad between Lincoln and
Fremont.
All over the state the hog market Is re-
ported good, less than 81 per 100 being paid
at few points.
A new proposed line OF the Burlington and
Missouri road is from shickley to Hastings,
via Clay Centre.
Fifteen new posts Of the c.. A. r. have been
organized in western Nebraska during the
last four weeks.
The surveyors OF the Elkhorn Valley rail.
road are within sixteen miles of Sutton, head
ing for Hastings.
The Plattsmouth Water-works company has
been granted until the LIST of April to com
plete the plant,
The Royal Arch Masons OF Superior, who
have been under dispensation, have i~nstitut-
cd a charter lodge.
Hiram Weeks lost his life at Anselmo by
being buried under a cave in OF thirty-hve
feet OF dirt IN a well.
The managers OF the Falls City fair have
chosen the last week IN September for
the date Of holding the fair.
It is rumored that the Burlington and Mis-
ouri company is going to build a repair shop
and round house at Shichley.
\ Nebraska City man was held up by two
road agents a few evenings ago and relieved
Of 81. 80 nd a plug OF tobacco.
The latest method suggested for dividing
Holt county is to cut It in the shape OF a dia-
mond, leaving O'Neill in the center.
A petition for the incorporation Of Benkel-
nan will be presented to the county commits
slouers at their meeting in February.
The treasurer of Platte county collected In
taxes last year $3.50, $50 and paid out sl04, 165.
The treasurer has a surplus Of $50, liz.
An industrial school and orphans home is
projected at Ravenna. They will pledge S.2,-
90 and GAO acres Of land FOR that purpose.
A call for a mass NEE ting of the citizens Of
Dundy county has been issued to take steps
toward securing the building Of a new court
house.
Dodge county has abolished the Office OF
superintendent Of the poor. There was a
surplus of dignity and too little benefit Id
the title.
Norfolk claims to rank third among Ne
braska cities as a railroad center, and that In
a few years it will stand as high in regard to
population.
The time fixed for the annual encampment
Of the Grand Army of the Republic, depart
ment of Nebraska, ha. been postponed until
March IS.
The Grand Army post at Wayne is talking
Of procuring several stands of arms, so that
it can turn out completely equipped as a mill
tary company.
A German named Hcisler will lose both Of
his ears and one hand. He got drunk and lay
down in the highway, with the result of freez-
ing those members.
A petition asking that women be granted
the privilege of voting In the school and mu-
niclpa) elections has been circulated and nu-
merously signed at Wayne.
The authorities of Hastings and Adams
county will petition the legislature for amend
mcnts to the law giving counties the right to
vote bonds for the erection OF jails.
Brought to the point Of ruin by liquor and
opium, DR.. c. D. w. Gibson, a well-known
and once prosperous citizen Of Wood River,
committed suicide at that place last Friday.
James and Abe Landreth were arrested last
week at RIyerton on a charge .; stealing cat
tie from J. f. Kelly, a scockman living near
Bloomington. II is thought they have been
engaged in a series Of robberies during the
last year.
Meetings are being held at Potter to devise
means for establishing a newspaper there.
The paper will be edited and published by c
+. Robertson OF Ktmball. Over 100 names
500, ol.aodv ham e,hecribnJ apd a hearty